Failing Windows Updates usually means the machine is infected or WIndows is damaged.Hit Start, type in 'cmd', hit Enter. You should receive a DOS-like prompt.

Try 'sfc /scannow' without the quotes. This is the System File Checker, an inbuilt function of Windows.I also strongly suggest scanning your computer for viruses, malware and spyware. Fortunately what is failing is .NET and not some even more essential function of Windows. After sfc and the system scans try re-running the updates.

Please post back here with results as these steps are fairly starter steps and more may need to be done, possibly a full manual install of your .NET framework.

thegst wrote:Failing Windows Updates usually means the machine is infected or WIndows is damaged.Hit Start, type in 'cmd', hit Enter. You should receive a DOS-like prompt.

Try 'sfc /scannow' without the quotes. This is the System File Checker, an inbuilt function of Windows.I also strongly suggest scanning your computer for viruses, malware and spyware. Fortunately what is failing is .NET and not some even more essential function of Windows. After sfc and the system scans try re-running the updates.

Please post back here with results as these steps are fairly starter steps and more may need to be done, possibly a full manual install of your .NET framework.

This action was un-successful; after typing in cmd, the DOS-like prompt appears. After entering sfc/scannow (without the quotes), and pressing enter, it prompts me with a message saying: "You must be an administrator running a console session in order to use the sfc utility". Though I am not completely sure what this means, I do "know" that I "am" the sole-administrator of my computer according to the User Accounts details. The only other account running is the "Guest Account" which rarely gets logged-into.

riviera74 wrote:If the last post did not work, uninstall (reboot) and download/reinstall .NET from Windows Download; that will almost certainly work.

Forgive my ignorance, however I do not know how to uninstall (reboot) and download/re-install .NET from Windows Download. If possible, can you please explain these steps to me in greater detail? I am a student willing and ready to learn...but in "baby-steps". Lol. Thank you for your time, and concern.

thegst wrote:Failing Windows Updates usually means the machine is infected or WIndows is damaged.Hit Start, type in 'cmd', hit Enter. You should receive a DOS-like prompt.

Try 'sfc /scannow' without the quotes. This is the System File Checker, an inbuilt function of Windows.I also strongly suggest scanning your computer for viruses, malware and spyware. Fortunately what is failing is .NET and not some even more essential function of Windows. After sfc and the system scans try re-running the updates.

Please post back here with results as these steps are fairly starter steps and more may need to be done, possibly a full manual install of your .NET framework.

This action was un-successful; after typing in cmd, the DOS-like prompt appears. After entering sfc/scannow (without the quotes), and pressing enter, it prompts me with a message saying: "You must be an administrator running a console session in order to use the sfc utility". Though I am not completely sure what this means, I do "know" that I "am" the sole-administrator of my computer according to the User Accounts details. The only other account running is the "Guest Account" which rarely gets logged-into.

He forgot you are using Windows 7. Hit Start, then type in "cmd" or "Command Prompt", you should see cmd.exe or "Command Prompt" show in the search result. Move your mouse so the cursor hover over the program, then right click. Select "Run as Administrator" and you will get the DOS-like window with "Administrator: Command Prompt" as the title. Then you can run 'sfc /scannow'. This is UAC in action where even being an "Administrator" you have to go through this explicitly to really do administrative actions.

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To Flying Fox: Thank you, your directions have helped. Though I still do not know if these actions will fix the over-all problem, your directions have gotten me a step further. And a great Thank You! to "everyone" working with me.

So I just finished running the sfc/scannow and its report was that: "Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations". It was mentioned that a full manual install of my .NET framework might possibly be needed as well, how do I go about doing this? Also, I just completed a virus, malware and spyware scan of my computer and it found eight (8) suspicious threats within' my registry; I have the full log-details if needed. I'm getting ready to restart the computer (mandatory in-order to remove all threats from my system); once I have re-booted, I will post and let you all know if the combination of actions have proven successful.

Okay, because I tried it without uninstalling first and it "didn't" work. I'll try it again the right way and let you know. So far, everything asked of me to do has not been successful. From removing malicious entities, sfc/scannow to (in-correctly) installing Microsoft .NET Framework 4. I will attempt to correctly install Microsoft .NET Framework 4 and let you all know if it proves successful.

Jluvs2006 wrote:Okay, because I tried it without uninstalling first and it "didn't" work. I'll try it again the right way and let you know. So far, everything asked of me to do has not been successful. From removing malicious entities, sfc/scannow to (in-correctly) installing Microsoft .NET Framework 4. I will attempt to correctly install Microsoft .NET Framework 4 and let you all know if it proves successful.